The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security has announced an Interim Final Rule amending the Export Administration Regulation’s General Prohibition Three, the foreign-produced direct product rule. According to the accompanying press release, the rule change makes the following foreign-produced items subject to the EAR: Items, such as semiconductor designs, when produced by Huawei and

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